Re: Is Info browser tilde expansion necessary?

[Gavin Smith]

On 3 February 2017 at 07:46, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> From: Gavin Smith <address@hidden>
>> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 22:42:39 +0000
>> Cc: Texinfo <address@hidden>
>>
>> With regards to any problems in tilde.c, I'd prefer to resolve this by
>> deleting the file. I don't think the Info browser needs to convert
>> tilde characters into the user's home directory. I don't know why this
>> feature was added in the first place (looking at the ChangeLog, it
>> looks like it's been there from the start).
>
> Most probably this feature is there to emulate Emacs.
>
>> Tilde expansion is done by the shell so there's no need for Info to
>> do it as well.
>
> ??? When I type "C-x C-f" in Info, no shell will help me expand the
> tilde in the file name I type after that.  Likewise if I want to
> specify a file name in the argument given to the 'g' command.

Ah, I see. I had never thought that anyone would do that. Do you think
it is an important feature?

I thought it might be for the contents of the INFOPATH environment
variable, but this is expanded when defined, at least it is in bash
when I checked.